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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great! finally we have some holistic factor in play. Bravo MCPS for working so diligently on increasing the number of URM in the magnet programs. It won't eliminate the inequality of MCPS right away, but is to the right direction!

I hope when Mrs. Dixon becomes the new elected MCPS BOE member in November, she will remember her promise to have students to attend schools of their choices, not to be limited by their home locations. We need stronger leaders with vision in MCPS. We need people with a big heart to truly the help the URM and to achieve equality.  [/quote]

URMs don't need to be in magnet schools.  URMs need to first bridge the gap at the very basic and elementary level of education.   All in all, this is charity to the unprepared.  It will not bridge the achievement gap.   
Inequality in achievement is a function of the home-life primarily.  The majority of URM parents are not involved in the education of their kids. [/quote]

:roll: [/quote]

It's hilarious to see so many white folks running scared because your little HGC pipeline for your snowflakes is threatened by attempts at leveling the playing field. 
Oh no, if minority and poor kids and their parents learn about the programs and, gasp, test in...what does it meeeeaaaaan?
I mean how could you ever get a taxpayer-funded, [i]special[/i] experience for your kids with so many blacks, Latinos and poors around?
Malign diversity efforts. Flood the school board with disingenuous complaints about lowered standards. Make paternalistic prognostications about what URMs [i]really[/i] need--after all, you know what's best for them.
Build a wall. Do whatever it takes to keep your privilege secure. 
And, if that fails, there's always private.  :lol: [/quote]

I think they should give the tests to every kid in MCPS and take the highest scoring.  IMO that wouldn't eliminate the disparity and might even make it worse; that's my guess why MCPS isn't doing it.  Are you OK with every kid being tested and taking the highest scorers or do you still want a thumb on the scale to balance demographics?[/quote]

Railing against the inevitable is futile. The program will open to a more diverse group of kids. And your hypothetical stand in the schoolhouse door scenarios are pointless. Welcome to 2017. Now learn to deal. [/quote]

So, your answer is "no, I don't want the highest scoring kids, I want a thumb on the scale". [/quote]

I want what scares you most: diversity on every level. Ethnic and socio economic. So if your scale means that all the kids tested will not have had a breakfast that morning, or slept in a shelter, or had a lifetime of overcoming generational poverty or institutionalized racism... sure, make that scale completely even. Make sure all of the kids go through that and then, sure, test them all and let the highest scorers in.
But that's impossible, and you know that.
Your choice is a false construct which excludes for these things because you refuse to see them as valid reasons for inequity.
But your willful blindness is irrelevant. Frankly, so is our conversation.
Change is here. And you can't stop it.
Guess who's coming to dinner...and your precious HGC.  :lol: 
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Are we talking about MoCo or Calcutta?  Lol.[/quote]

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